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UCSB Hist 2c F’09, L8:Japan and Imperialism

How did Japan come to join the ‘imperialist gang,’instead of succumbing to it?

0. Responses to Twilight Samurai & Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process event? Clicker reg.: purged July 2009Midterm: 2 blue books to section; special accomm.

1. Tokugawa shogunate (1600-1868)2. Meiji restoration: Japan as imperialist power3. Midterm review and UC’s future

Music: Chinese Cultural Revolution songs, 1940s (youtube: East is RedEast is Red, , LiuyangLiuyang RiverRiver, , Sun over PrairieSun over Prairie)

Last Lecture Clicker Q: CWhich of the following would an early 19th

century conservative be most likely to support?

A. a proposal to give poor and rich alike an equal vote

B. an officially established church with B. an officially established church with preeminent rights in educationpreeminent rights in education

C. an absolutist monarch ruling with no C. an absolutist monarch ruling with no constitutional restraintsconstitutional restraints

D. a proposal to sever any connections between church and schools

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Japan Timeline• Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868)

– Highly literate, technologically advanced, “feudal”– Many principalities united by print culture– Stable: No war for over 200 years (1639-1864)– Samurai: peacetime warrior-bureaucrats, run gov’t

• Disruption in mid-1800s– China: Opium wars (1840-42; 1856-64)– India: 1858 Britain colonizes Mughal empire– Japan: 1853 & ’54: US Commodore Perry arrives

1858: “Treaty of Amity & Commerce”(Unequal Treaties)

“Feudal" Japan The Shogun / Daimyo / a Samurai

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Edo (Tokyo) in the 1600s Celebration of Shogun

Dutch ships in Nagasaki bay

A Dutchman and a

Chinese servant

(1861)

Doctor reading a book of medicine

Camels for the Shogun, 1821

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Perry's black ships, 1853 & ‘54 Japan and the West

1848 photo portrait of

daimyo ShimazuNariakira(1809-1858)

1855 Earthquake and fire

Young radical samurai ronin

Ronin Group making plans

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Target Practice

British capture of Choshu battery, 1863

Battle of Fushimi (1868): Overthrow of Tokugawa

Imperial Troops enter

Edo

"Emperor's New

Clothes" (cabinet

minister with Western clothes &

mutton chops)

Okubo Toshimichi(1830-1878): advocate of

Westernization

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Fukuzawa Yukichi(1835-1901; 1860 photo)

author of An Outline Theory of Civilization,

1875:"In all the places touched by the Europeans are there any which have developed their

power, attained benefits, preserved their independence? What has been the outcome in

Persia, India, Siam, Luzon, and Java? …"

“Self-Colonization”• Accepts notion that

West = civilizednon-western=uncivilized

• Japan can prove that it is "civilized" by colonizing others, namely Okinawa and Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands

Rutgers students Conscript Army

Making a speech for popular rights Industrialization: Factory in the 1880s

Zaibatsu (Vertical Monopoly: Factory, Import/Export, Bank)

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Kishida Toshiko(1863-1901)advocate of

women's rights

"If it is true that men are better than women because

they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the

government?"

Newspaper Office

Press Censorship

Satsuma Western

Ship

The First Diet Ginza district

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London Daily Timesrepresentation of empires: imperialist

utopia

3 Fishermen: Russia, China, Japan(fish: Korea)

1895 Sino-Japanese war Westernized Japanese troops battle crying Chinese

Treaty table Russian Octopus

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1904-05 Russo-Japanese War

Japanese troops chase Russians over a precipice

Hospital Scene: Japanese care for Russians

Protest March in Korea Captured Independence Activists

French cartoon belittling Japanese

attempts at Westernization

(note the reflection!)

Forum: “The Future of UC”12:45 Theater Bldg, 1pm, Campbell Hall, 2pm• UC President Yudoff in the NY Times, 9/24/09:

"[B]eing president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: There are many people under you, but no one is listening.”

• Saving UCSB announces “Zombies Unite!”“an outbreak against budget cuts, fee hikes, privatization, the Schwarzenegger tax, and the failed leadership of the UCOP and Regents”

– Come read the names of students, faculty, staff, programs, services, and equipment that have left/will leave UC Santa Barbara because of the budget cuts

– Black armbands provided; wear something undead because … We're not dead yet!

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UC’s Future – Our Future?

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State Contribution to UC

• http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2009/09/there-is-no-alternative.html

UC’s AA1 Bond RatingUnmarked envelope slipped to Berkeley prof

• Filing with the FTC: UC’s bonds are guaranteed by unlimited increases in student fees. They can go up as needed to cover repayment. Has always worked in the past.

• Who benefits from this rating?

Return on Investment• $40,000/student from state since 1960s• College grads average $53,500/year

High School grads avg $32,400/year• Bureau Labor & Stats: State tax rates

College: 8.7% High School: 9.5%(income, sales, property, …)

• Annually: $1,580 more from college grad• Working life: 43 vs. 47 years til age 65

$55,600 more from the college grad$55,600-40,000=$15,600 net profit

• UC contribution now $31,000Profit increases to $24,600—at what cost??

Clicker Q: Midterm Review 1I will offer two 1-hour online review

sessions. They will be archived to read later. Which day would you MOST prefer?

A. Monday 5-6 pmB. Tuesday 5-6 pmC.C. Tuesday 8Tuesday 8--9 pm9 pmD. Wednesday 3-4 or 4-5pm (or 8-9?)E. I don’t want to ask questions, I’ll read

later if I have time/want to

Clicker Q: Midterm Review 2Given that one review session will be on

Tuesday 8-9 pm. I would like the second one to be on:

A.A. Monday 5Monday 5--6 pm6 pmB. Tuesday 5-6 pmC. Tuesday 8-9 pmD. Wednesday 3-4pmE. Wednesday 4-5pmF. I don’t care